School Rhymes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFFGGHHIIGGJJKKLL MNOO PQRSTT UUVVWWXXYYZA2B2B2C2C 2D2D2| O academic muse that hast for long | A |
| Charmed all the world with thy disciples song | A |
| As myrtle bushes must give place to trees | B |
| Our humbler strains can now no longer please | B |
| Look down for once inspire me in these lays | C |
| In lofty verse to sing our Rector's praise | C |
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| The mighty wheel of Time to light has rolled | D |
| That golden age by ancient bards foretold | D |
| Minerva now descends upon our land | E |
| And scatters knowledge with unsparing hand | E |
| Long since Ulysses saw the heavenly maid | F |
| In Mentor's form and Mentor s dress arrayed | F |
| But now to Cambrian lands the goddess flies | G |
| And drops in Williams form from out the skies | G |
| And as at dawn the brilliant orb of light | H |
| With his bright beams dispels the gloomy night | H |
| So sunk in ignorance our land he finds | I |
| But with his learning drives it from our minds | I |
| And he a hero shall with joyful eyes | G |
| See crowds of heroes all around him rise | G |
| With great Minerva's wisdom he shall rule | J |
| Those boisterous youths the rector's class at school | J |
| And when in the fifth class begins his power | K |
| And he begins to teach us from that hour | K |
| Dame Poetry begins to show her face | L |
| And witty epigrams the plaster grace | L |
| There growing wild are often to be seen | M |
| The names of boys that Duxes erst have been | N |
| And at the chimney piece is seen the same | O |
| All thickly scribbled with the boobie's name | O |
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| Ne er shall the dreadful tawse be heard again | P |
| The lash resounding and the cry of pain | Q |
| Carmichael's self will change O that he would | R |
| From the imperative to wishing mood | S |
| Ye years roll on and haste the expected time | T |
| When flogging boys shall be accounted crime | T |
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| But come thy real nature let us see | U |
| No more the rector but the goddess be | U |
| Come in thy might and shake the deep profound | V |
| Let the Academy with shouts resound | V |
| While radiant glory all thy head adorns | W |
| And slippers on thy feet protect thy corns | W |
| O may I live so long on earth below | X |
| That I may learn the things that thou dost know | X |
| Then will I praise thee in heroic verse | Y |
| So good that Linus will be counted worse | Y |
| The Thracian Orpheus never will compare | Z |
| With me nor Dods that got the prize last year | A2 |
| But stay O stay upon this earth a while | B2 |
| Even now thou seest the world's approving smile | B2 |
| And when thou goest to taste celestial joys | C2 |
| Let thy great nephew teach the mourning boys | C2 |
| Then mounting to the skies upon the wind | D2 |
| Lead captive ignorance in chains behind | D2 |
James Clerk Maxwell
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